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  2. APPLE CHARLOTTE.

    Ingredients.—9 slices of bread and butter, about six good sized apples, I tablespoonful of minced lemon peel, 2 tablespoonfuls of juice, moist sugar ...

    Article : 96 words
  3. SHORT STORY

    It was a little [?] place in West Cornwall that I met with Miss Cynthia Traleven. I never [?] her before and have never seen her since: Yet in the short ...

    Article : 4,184 words
  4. Housekeeper.

    Never go to bed with cold or damp feet. Never lean with the back upon any-thing that is cold. ...

    Article : 229 words
  5. Odds and Ends

    "I'm satisfied," said the angry tailor, "that you intend to cheat me out of this money." "All right," chuckled the happy ...

    Article : 172 words
  6. SWEET MACARONI PUDDING.

    Ingredients.—¼lb. macaroni, 1½ pint of milk, the rind of half a lemon, 3oz. of sugar, ¾ pint of custard. Method.—Put the milk into a ...

    Article : 70 words
  7. Miscellaneous.

    Whales are not able to swim faster than ten or twelve miles an hour. The barking of a dog on the earth can be distinctly heard by balloonists ...

    Article : 201 words
  8. APRICOT CAKES.

    Ingredients.—Half a pound castor sugar half a pound butter, half a pound flour, two ounces rice flour, half a teaspoonful baking powder, half a ...

    Article : 102 words
  9. THE NATURAL WAY.

    Schoolmaster: "How did Columbus know the world was round? Pupil: "He read it in his geography book, I suppose." ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 70 words
  10. Science & Invention.

    The Pharos Lighthouse, Alexandria, was built B.C. 285. Its height ,is 550 feet, and the light visible at 42 miles. In the British Museum, according to ...

    Article : 58 words
  11. CHAPPED HANDS AND LIPS.

    Take equal parts of mutton tallow and gum camphor and melt together; apply as often as desired. ...

    Article : 21 words
  12. BIGGEST CLOCK IN THE WORLD.

    England's "Big Ben" is the largest clock in the world but its 22½ feet diameter of dial and its gigantic internal economy will soon have to take ...

    Article : 105 words
  13. EASILY DIGESTED FOOD.

    Bread that has been toasted until it becomes brown has had the starch in it largely converted into dextrine, and hence, so far as the brown portion is ...

    Article : 103 words
  14. DIFFERENT SPECIES OF ANIMALS NUMBER 390,000.

    According to an official of the Smithsonian Institution, at Washington the latest enumeration of the animals known to science includes no ...

    Article : 108 words
  15. HOW INSECTS BREATHE.

    Take any moderately large insect and examine it closely. You will observe, even with the naked eye, that the body is pierced with a number of ...

    Article : 102 words
  16. TO CLEAN A METAL PAN.

    First scour off the burnt substance! with sharp sand and water, then rinse. If the pan is copper or brass, make a pickle of equal parts of oil of vitrol ...

    Article : 119 words
  17. ONE FOR JONES.

    Smart Volunteer Captain ("dressing" his men at the "charge") "Lean more forward, Jones—that" touching the point of Jones' bayonet— ...

    Article : 44 words
  18. ELECTRIC POWER FROM WIND.

    Wind motors as power generators for use in agricultural and industrial pursuits are increasing in Denmark. Motors with four wings have given ...

    Article : 133 words
  19. JURYMAN'S RULE OF THUMB.

    A lawyer once asked a man who had at various times sat on several juries, "Who influenced you most—the lawyers, the witnesses, or the judge? " ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 154 words
  20. DIAMONDS HARDER THAN STEEL.

    The diamond is the hardest mineral in existence, though metal tantalum, used for electric lamp filaments, comes very near it. Although so hard, the ...

    Article : 160 words
  21. AN UNPOPULAR GIRL.

    Do you know the grudging girl? Is she on your list of acquaintances ? She is on most people's, and they regret the fact mightily! ...

    Article : 168 words
  22. A MONSTER KITE.

    Probably the most wonderful and ingenious achievement of a Chinese kite-maker is designed to represent a gigantic centipede. This is ...

    Article : 274 words
  23. A PETRIFIED FOREST.

    In England, specially in the coal districts, fossil trees are not rare, but we have nothing to compare with the Petrified Forest of Arizona. It is a ...

    Article : 347 words
  24. GET THE EXERCISE HABIT.

    There is not a woman who ought not, to get the exercise habit, and get it so hard that. she can never shake it off again. ...

    Article : 167 words
  25. IN A NEWSPAPER OFFICE.

    Benevolent Old Lady (tapping, timidly at a door in the offices of a welknown weekly newspaper): "Would it be possible for me to see 'Aunt ...

    Article : 101 words
  26. HOUSEHOLD RECIPES.

    Ingredients.-4 sponge cakes jam, pint cream, sugar to taste, the Juice of half a lemon, ¼ of glass of sherry, 1oz of gelatine. ...

    Article : 133 words
  27. STAMP-LICKING MACHINES.

    Stamp licking, the office boy's bane is to be abolished by a new invention—a machine, which places the stamp on the letter without any human aid ...

    Article : 243 words
  28. LOGIC IN LOVE.

    The Heiress: "And would you love me if I lost all my money?" "The Count (earnestly): "Dearest, in that case, what else would there be ...

    Article : 103 words
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